VestaCP is a open source webhosting control panel. It support FTP and SFTP backup out of the box, but with some patches can be adapted to backup to ObjSpace. This is an experimental set of patches so please backup your system before making these changes. Delimiter is not responsible for dataloss or damage caused by using or following these instructions.
Patching VestaCP
| Step | Action | Centos / Redhat | Debian / Ubuntu | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Install S3CMD | cd /etc/yum.repos.d wget http://s3tools.org/repo/RHEL_6/s3tools.repo yum -y install s3cmd | sudo wget -O- -q http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.key | sudo apt-key add - sudo wget -O/etc/apt/sources.list.d/s3tools.list http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.list sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install s3cmd | S3CMD is used to connect to ObjSpace |
| 2 | Configure S3CMD | cat > /root/.s3cfg <<EOF [default] access_key = YOURACCESSKEY secret_key = YOURSECRETKEY bucket_location = US cloudfront_host = cloudfront.amazonaws.com cloudfront_resource = /2010-07-15/distribution default_mime_type = binary/octet-stream delete_removed = False dry_run = False encoding = UTF-8 encrypt = False follow_symlinks = False force = False get_continue = False gpg_command = /usr/bin/gpg gpg_decrypt = %(gpg_command)s -d --verbose --no-use-agent --batch --yes --passphrase-fd %(passphrase_fd)s -o %(output_file)s %(input_file)s gpg_encrypt = %(gpg_command)s -c --verbose --no-use-agent --batch --yes --passphrase-fd %(passphrase_fd)s -o %(output_file)s %(input_file)s gpg_passphrase = guess_mime_type = True host_base = obj.space host_bucket = %(bucket)s.obj.space human_readable_sizes = False list_md5 = False log_target_prefix = preserve_attrs = True progress_meter = True proxy_host = proxy_port = 0 recursive = False recv_chunk = 4096 reduced_redundancy = False send_chunk = 4096 simpledb_host = sdb.amazonaws.com skip_existing = False socket_timeout = 10 urlencoding_mode = normal use_https = False verbosity = WARNING EOF | YOURACCESSKEY and YOURSECRETKEY are shown on the welcome email. If your Secret Key has an escaped / ie \/ (backslash then forward slash) then remove the backslash so just the forward slash is copied into the config. | |
| 3 | Test S3CMD | s3cmd ls | This will show a list of all buckets currently in your ObjSpace account. If you have not created any yet then it will be empty. | |
| 4 | Change to VestaCP directory | cd /usr/local/vesta | ||
| 5 | Download the patches | wget http://delimiter.obj.space/vestacp/vestacp-objspace-06aa3a92-dist.tar.gz | ||
| 6 | Backup the system files | cp bin/v-backup-user bin/v-backup-user.ORIGINAL | ||
| 7 | Untar the patched files | tar xvzf vestacp-objspace-06aa3a92-dist.tar.gz | ||
Configuring VestaCP
Login to VestaCP and go to Server -> Configuration. In there select Backup and make the following changes:
- Enter a bucket name, you can precreate a bucket or leave VestaCP to create it for you.
- AccessKey and SecretKey are not used here at this time, this is because VestaCP passes the data to the command openly which can be easily seen on a public system. You have to enter dummy values in here in order for VestaCP to process the backup file.
- Enter a directory (if required), this in case you want to have multiple servers backing up to the same bucket. You should not place a slash in the directory name.
- Click Save
Go back to the command line and verify that the Objspace configuration file now been generated by VestaCP:
cat /usr/local/vesta/conf/objspace.backup.conf
You should see your bucket name and directory in the HOST and BPATH variables respectively.
Testing Backup
Time to test the backup works, you'll need to choose a user to test with then run:
/usr/local/vesta/bin/v-backup-user
or to Sync:
rclone sync /home/myfiles objspace:turnerserverbackup/
Restoring files using RClone
The process is exactly the same as copying to ObjSpace except you swap the source and destination. The same caveat applies about the Copy and Sync command:
rclone copy objspace:turnerserverbackup/myfiles /home/
or to Sync:
rclone sync objspace:turnerserverbackup/myfiles /home/
Summary
Before using RClone on any critical files, spend some time to get used to the commands. Its very easy to overwrite or delete your files, RClone is designed to be as automated as possible so it wont prompt you before deletion.
If you have any issues using ObjSpace then please open a support ticket.
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